The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-04-19


they needed any hands. l got letter
from him a day or two after i went
back to Kansas, because my clothes
were there. ! went to work again ON
the section. 1t was three or four days
after | got there | received the letter.
/ don't know what | did with the let
ter. / got pass to return 10 Sedalia
at Fort Scott. Mr.. Jones set me to
work here. / saw Mr.. Weller this morn
ing. Yes. sir, | saw him before | went
TO work. | did say / went to work rs
soon as / got here. Mr.. Weller sent
me To MIR. Jones. Mr. Jones set me to
work. went to Indiana to help a
man more there. | staid there about
seven years. | came back to Missouri
OH account of my health. | said the
men we passed TN the day of the wreck
were busy talking; after we passed
they turned round and went east.
Bridges Turned and ran: how
fast did they run; which way ,"
The Court-"Mr. Bridges, the wit
ness did not say the men turned and
ru" he said they turned round and
ran east; You understood HIN"
Witness-When / met Hamilton
ON the street he asked me what | was
doing here? | told him nothing. He
said L had better take it and get away.
| told him all right. / don't Know
what he meant by that. | knew he
was one of the men i saw at the
crossing. do not know that he was
one of the men that tore
up the track. | am satisfied he is the
man | saw on the track, / do not
know what he meant by telling me to
get out of town.
Mr.. Lamm-I object to the CUES
tons of the defense; would it be proper
for the state To show at this time that
the strikers were in the habit of run
uing all strange wOrkmen out of town.
This was what the testimony was
drifting to. The court sustained the
objection.
Captain Bridges continued the Cross
and the witness stated that
he could recognize RosenthaI by his
face and pointed him cut in the audi
ence. He saw ROsenthal at the
wreck, ROsenIhal was talking to him,
he told him of seeing the two men.
He had come TO Sedalia after the
wreck in response to telegram from
MIR. De Long. he had identified Ham
iltOn and Collins after he come. In
answer to further questions, he re-
peated his story of being in town the
day OF the wreck and ON hearing of it,
going to the place on foot and of meet
ing Rosenthal, and telling him of see
ing the men and them going home
with Mr.. Ellison. He had written
letter to Constable Carnes while in
Kansas.
Bridges--"What was in that letter."
Mr.. Lamm-"We object; the letter
is the best evidence of that"
Objection sustained. This closed
the examination of witness.
j. j. Frey was called to explain q
few points about the wreck and the
prosecution closed.
THE DEFENSE.
Hamilton. the defendant took, the
stand next and opened for defense, he
was "a years of age, single had re-
sided in Sedalia for thirteen years
was employed at the Sedalia WOODEN
mills eight or nine years worked |
awhile for the railroad then went |
back to the wooden mills after Mr.. !
Gain. bought it last. Went to work |
ior the railroad in 1884, was in the
strikes 1885 and 1886. He was ar
rested on the oath or 18th of March |
1886. He left Missouri June %, 1886 |
vent to indianapolis Ind, and went
20 work in the express Office there,
had been employed there ever since.
ne returned to Sedalia last October
% stand trial for train wrecking had
ready for trial but the
tate continued his case, he was here
low for the second time for trial. He
the 23d day, of March,
knew where he was all day, he rose
Ibout 6: 80 a. M. left home after
breakfast, about Z a. m. came down
own saw no one he knew, went to the
exchange saloon kept by
inc. Robb-about 8 o'clock met
here VIM. Delaney, Jack Collins,
and Buck Fleming, staid there a
hort time playing cards. Fleming
vas a brakeman, he proposed going
o his cabOOse as he wanted to write
% the "old woman" that was his
wife. We all went with him, went
ID Second street to Lamine
md down Lamine to the railroad and
hen east on the passenger track till
Ne rot opposite the coal chutes where